If there is anyone who, regardless of the outcome of this election, has made sure that he will never work again in Democratic politics at any meaningful level, it is this jackass:
ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton said it’s “incomprehensible” that Sen. Barack Obama would choose another woman to be his vice-presidential candidate over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
“The selection of either one of those instead of Sen. Clinton I would find completely incomprehensible,” said Lanny Davis of rumored Obama vice-presidential contenders Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Can we please just send this babbling, ignorant, tendentious fool to Gitmo? That is where the worst of the worst are housed, right?
El Cid
You mean there’s something Lanny Davis finds incomprehensible? I thought pretty much everything was incomprehensible to him.
Keith
I also find it incomprehensible that I don’t get my way all the time.
bayville
This being the trade deadline, why not make it a package deal.
We’ll also include Bob Beckel, Harold Ford and a Faux Democrat consultant-to-be-named-later for Lyndie England.
Zifnab
Isn’t he getting a show on FOX?
chopper
i find it incomprehensible that he still finds work.
cybergal619
I know my blood pressure has measurably gone down since that fool joined his fellow wingnuts at Fox and I didn’t have to listen to his high-pitched whining any more. Seeing his name in print in your post has brought back so many bad memories. His voice makes my ears bleed!
Gotta go. I’m working on a world speed record for getting scrubbed at Jake’s blog.
Aaron M
That’s some fine wishful thinking there, John. If there’s anything I’ve learned from the last decade of elections, it’s that no matter how damn stupid a Democratic ‘strategist’ or consultant is, they will keep getting work.
Punchy
This is a joke, right? He’d pull a Dem Senator out of a fairly pink state, so that a R govenor (although not for long…not sure how that works) could replace her with a (R) Senator?
Guess it all depends on who gets to make the switch…the outgoing (R) or almost surely incoming (D) governor.
DannyNoonan
That’s right, Lanny. Because if you can’t suck at the Executive Teet of Power then no other scumbag Washington lawyer should.
Noah
We could actually use Lanny Davis to “interrogate” terrorism suspects at Gitmo.
Just sit him down next to them and have him start talking, though that might violate the Geneva Conventions.
cyntax
I used to think that weather forecasters had the cushiest jobs ever based on how often they could get things wrong, but really Lanny Davis makes your average weather person look like they would’ve been qualified to work on the Manhattan Project.
Gary
Maybe I missed it somewhere, but has Clinton herself given even the slightest inkling that she would want the VP slot? I can’t see what would be the possible appeal to it for her.
"Fair and Balanced" Dave
That’s a common misconception. Actually, for the past 7 years, the worst of the worst have been housed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.
4tehlulz
This is too good not to share. gg McCain
cyntax
Yeah, and Ted Stevens might be in a spot of trouble.
The Moar You Know
Godspeed.
I’m pretty anti-Gitmo, but if you send both Lanny and Halperin there, I’ll drop all objections to keeping it open.
cleek
and this is too good not to share:Barack Hitler Obama!!
(and, jeebus forgive me, for i must whore)
chopper
the plot thins!
no, seriously, this is great. well, except for the part where mccains crappy ads get tons of free airplay. at least everyone is calling them out for what they are – completely fucking retarded.
Chris Johnson
re: Hilton.
Oh my :)
The Moar You Know
No one could have possibly forseen that McCain’s bashing of a huge Republican donor’s grandaughter could have negative consequences!
Brachiator
Vizzini: INCONCEIVABLE!!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is not relevant to the most devoted Clinton acolytes. They are the self-appointed guardians of the Sun Queen’s legacy, whether or not she agrees with them. There is an absolutely weird sentiment that exists among them that Hillary must be the first woman president, and being the VP gets her closer to that position.
What is even more weird among the Clinton maenads who were so exquisitely attuned to the supposed sexism in the media that prevented Their Precious from obtaining her presidential ring is that they are prepared to crush the hopes of any other woman who might dare challenge their vision of Hillary as the once and future first woman president.
demkat620
Agreed. Watch Andrea Mitchell. She is shocked to her core that McCain’s campaign is doing this shit.
As for Lanny, if I never hear from him, Howard Wolfson, Terry McAsshat or Mark Penn again, it will be too soon.
MikeL
You know, this thread has dealt a serious blow to my life’s dream of seeing John Cole, Hillary Clinton, and Lanny Davis hold hands and sing the Barney song together.
demkat620
A kodak moment!
Incertus
Bob Shrum is example number one. At least Obama has dodged that bullet for the time being.
Jake
Lanny does remind one of Vizzini. Are we sure he didn’t say “inconceivable”?
DannyNoonan
Btw, it’s probably worth mentioning that the Britney Spears reference is especially galling given her moronic statement in Fahrenheit 9-11 about trusting Bush.
lurker
Yep, Andrea Mitchell is not happy at all:
marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/sparring_over_mccain_ads.php
I think she’s genuinely shocked that he guy she liked is pulling this kind of crap.
Grand Moff Texan
Lanny is a bitch in another bloc, now.
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cybergal619
Wow! Somebody that can actually shut Mrs. Greenspan up. He definitely had her rattled. What a mess the media is.
Zifnab
Remember back when Hilton and Brit-Brit were big Bush fans? And now Grampa McCain is throwing them under the bus. How… typical?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Constant vigilance is required in the war against celebrityfascism.
Genine
I don’t know… maybe someone could draw a picture?
4tehlulz
>>I don’t know… maybe someone could draw a picture?
I don’t see how this doesn’t end up being horrible, psych-scarring porn.
4tehlulz
*psyche
John
I don’t recall Hilton ever making any kind of coherent political statement of any kind, ever. Britney certainly used to talk about what a big Republican she was, iirc.
TCG
Lanny Davis via bbc radio on 06/04:
He was nearly apoplectic over the possibility that she wouldn’t be VP even back then. Dude was seriously heartbroken.
jake
I’ll say it again. Everyone who pushes that crap sounds like some high school twit who’s gotten her thong in a twist because Barry might go to the prom with Vicky when he knows Jenny will like totally die if he doesn’t ask her.
Grow. Up.
Maybe the people who think an offer of the VP slot would be a slap in the face (sorry!) will go after Lanny.
here4tehbeer
I expect he’ll get caught in one of those Dateline stings any week now.
Mike
I see the Obama Fan Boy can’t let go of his two minutes of Hillary Hate . Now, let’s see, who was it that voted against the Fourth Amendment and in favor of Telecom immunity? Who was it that revenged on his NAFTA position? Who is it who praised the extremist Supreme Court for striking down and DC gun law and who praised the extremist members on the court for wanting to use the death penalty for non-capital crimes. Yes, that would be your hero, the right wing candidate Barack Obama. Do you share Narcissistic Personality Disorder, because clearly you both believe in the grandeur that is you.
nightjar
Somebody’s been sneakin’ sips of the PUMA Kool-Aid. This batch made from Riverwater.
mere mortal
Mr. Cole,
In regards to Hillary Clinton, could you please just shut up and go away?
If not, why not? After all, you have allowed that you cannot discuss her or her candidacy in a rational manner.
So just shut up. And go away.
4tehlulz
Wow. Going into someone else’s house and telling them to go away.
I’d even say that’s arrogant, maybe a bit…presumptuous.
jake
You’re saying Lanny Davis is Hillary Clinton? Now that’s a slap in the face.